The latest drop of #Antarctic #SeaIce extent seen in my plots is of course not real but an artefact due to missing #JAXA satellite data. I received the following messages:

Malfunction of the product upload system for G-Portal was occurred at 02:05UTC on August 30th, 2023...

We'll continue manual registration for further products, but the situation might remain for a while...

🇯🇵 #Jaxa’s #Slim aims to land with an accuracy of upto 100m compared to conventional #lunar landers whose accuracy is “several or sometimes a dozen kilometers” https://www.independent.co.uk/space/japan-moon-lander-launch-suspended-b2400457.html

I wonder if the problems are related to problems in their #aircraft business.
Here's #hoping for #DreamChaser.
I hope some #LiftingBody #spacecraft manages to fly.
Maybe the #ESA and #JAXA need to get together if they want anything done.

🇯🇵 #JAXA 📆 June 7, 2023 #Hayabusa2 #Ryugu ☄️mission summary 🔬 : #minerals were found to have formed about 5 million years after the start of the #SolarSystem 🌌 (now 4.56 billion years old). https://cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/the-sample-from-asteroid-ryugu-summary-early-2023/
The #NASA #osirisrex mission is scheduled to bring a sample from asteroid #Bennu back to #Earth 🌏 this September.

#AsteroidScience #AsteroidMining

RT @aikawakira
Japanese Natto!!
#jaxa
#esa
#BepiColombo

🇯🇵 📆 April 1, 2023 #JAXA postponed the H-IIA launch until at least August because the #rocket shares many of the same components with the #H3 rocket that failed to launch in March https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense-Industries/Japan-delays-next-H-IIA-launch-grounding-all-space-rockets

Massimo Luciani - Uracil and vitamin B3 found in samples from asteroid Ryugu:

https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2023/03/23/uracil-and-vitamin-b3-found-in-samples-from-asteroid-ryugu/

#Asteroid #Ryugu #Uracil #Niacin #VitaminB3 #Organics #Biomarkers #JAXA #Hayabusa2 #SampleReturn #Hokkaido #Astrobiology #Astronomy

Friday night's train of fireballs over Northern & Central California matched the expected re-entry time & course of ISS DEB/ICS-EF (database entry 45265), Japan #JAXA's Inter-orbit Communication System which was discarded as obsolete in 2020. https://aerospace.org/reentries/iss-deb-ics-ef-id-45265

📆 28 Feb 2023 🇮🇳 #Chandrayaan-3 will be launched for the mission to the same landing site on the #Moon's 🌙 south polar region that Chandrayaan-2's #Vikram lander attempted in 2019. It is expected to be launched between 📆 June and July 2023. The #rover and #lander will be built by ISRO, and put into orbit by a #Japanese 🇯🇵 #rocket 🚀. https://news.abplive.com/science/isro-successfully-conducts-flight-acceptance-test-of-engine-that-will-power-lvm3-for-chandrayaan-3-1585160

#ISRO #JAXA

RT @JAXA_jp
【H3ロケット今日の一枚】
「リフトオフ」を公開しました。
https://www.rocket.jaxa.jp/rocket/h3/gallery.html

#JAXA #H3ロケット

This news site says: "Japan's space agency says flight data analysis of the failed H3 rocket launch revealed that a device had abnormal voltage levels around the time the second-stage engine was supposed to ignite."

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230308_29/

#JAXA #H3 #H3TF1

A new statement from JAXA. It doesn't really say much new.

https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2023/03/20230307-2_e.html

#JAXA #H3 #H3TF1

RT @tane_rocket
H3ロケット試験機1号機タワークリア!!
#H3ロケット試験機1号機
#H3TF1
#タワークリア
#ロケット打上げ
#だいち3号
#ALOS3
#JAXA

Looks like JAXA & gov.’s rationale of putting an $280m major Earth observation mission on a (in @NASA_LSP’s terms) “uncertified” launch vehicle is getting a lot of backlashes, even ex-astronaut Soichi Noguchi is questioning it now:
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RT @Astro_Soichi
#H3ロケット失敗 で叩かれてるけど #JAXA 頑張ろう。そもそも試験機に実用衛星載せる必然性は？H２八号機指令破壊の後のH2A初号機はダミー衛星だった。H3 50憶に対して #だいち3号 380憶だからリスクヘッジだよ。次は岡田さんにプレッシャー掛からないようゆっくり原因究明して「から打ち」にしては？
https://twitter.com/Astro_Soichi/status/1633275898932903936

RT @tane_rocket
H3ロケット試験機1号機打上げ
2段目のエンジンが点火せず、指令破壊されてしまいましたが、次に向けて歩みを止めず進み続けて欲しいです。
次こそは成功することを祈っています。
#JAXA
#H3ロケット試験機1号機
#H3TF1
#ロケット打上げ
#ロケットのある風景

RT @freely360
H3ロケット打ち上げ
衝撃波が凄い😭
見れてよかった

#JAXA #H3 #H3TF1

"Japan’s new rocket fails on debut launch in setback for space program" by CNN / Brad Lendon - Maiden launch of Japan's #H3 rocket🚀 failed when 2nd stage didn't ignite. #ALOS3 Earth-observation satellite lost. (Many rocket first attempts fail.) https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/07/asia/japan-space-launch-destroyed-intl-hnk #space #JAXA

RT @nhk_kagoshima
日本の新たな主力ロケット
「H3」の初号機が
種子島宇宙センターから
打ち上げられました。

#JAXA #H3 #NHKH3実況 #H3rocket

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20230307/k10014000041000.html

JAXA deleted that statement and issued this new short statement.

JAXA: "A destruct command has been transmitted to H3 around 10:52 a.m. (Japan Standard Time), because there was no possibility of achieving the mission. We are confirming the situation."

https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2023/03/20230307-1_e.html

#JAXA #H3

Condolences to JAXA on the loss of their second stage.

They have issued this short statement.
JAXA: "A destruct command has been transmitted to H3, because there was no possibility of achieving the mission. We are confirming the situation."

https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2023/03/20230307-0_j.html

#JAXA #H3